The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
formers who are not OBLIGED to divide with

farmers, who are not obliged to divide with
the local Spectator; and if by chance
now and then q loss occurs 1t need not
create CONSERVATION, for as 1t is the specu-
lator assesses all his losses on the sue
ceeding purchasers.
2. Where there is n patron factory the
patrons reserve the right to- and do, skim
the nights milk during summer, and
generally all of it in spring and fall, at
least three out of four milkings. The
lack of uniformity in setting the milk, and
the difference in the conditions, cause it to
reach the factory in every stage of quality,
and the result IS In most cases cheese be-
low the average standard of half skins,
This the buyer takes advantage of. buying
the whole lot at the price of the poorest
half. If the patrons had set up the same
standard of quality for milk that the
buyer insists upon, twice per day delivery;
this milk could have been made into first
class stock, and one point III profitable
dairying secured.
3. The patrons who make butter at
home lose LARGELY by not cooperating in
its manufacture; and they produce the
changed for Goldfish, pound for pound,
when II il had been made at the factory it
would have had quality and uniformity
about 1t, and being sold as fast as made,
and in large enough quantity to attract at
tention of butter buyers, net barter mer-
chants, it would lie sold for money, and ut
double the price actually received by the
ordinary butter maker, and full co-opera=
ton would ut this point also make an
other paying profit over home industry.
4. Why farmers will not cooperate and
manufacture, not sell, their milk Is also
remarkable, when they can see that by not
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what they ought. Bur disrust and petty
jealousy prevent, and large sums are lost.
case is in mind whore the dairymen of a
neighborhood sell *, all new, ut 90 and
20 cents per 100 pounds, 10 man who
skins IT blue, and then sells the skim
milk IN the near at hand city for enough
to pay them and all other expenses, and
leaves the Spectator the butter clear, for
his doing for them what they could do as
we'll for themselves. "Oh, they say, hes
sure pay; we know Just what we are going
to get for our milk and no troubled" And
SO they discard cooperation, which would
be as sure a return as an individual agrees
ment, and allow the uncOmmercial trans
action TO go on, even allowing the specu-
lator to set his own price for the milk, his
opinion of its worth, distarding the old
business adage that 1T takes two to make
a bargain"
>. In this milk selling cooperation
would save another loss seldom thought
of, but If made into cheese and the whole
product of milk sold, would make a large
sum in the aggregate. milk buyer buys
the milk of coo COWS, amounting to prob
ably 10000 pounds daily in June. With
out changing the price, the shrinkage in
July amounts to probably $500 pounds,
which means about SIT less money in the
luvipo pypenep account Int fine shrin k np
in cheese will be less than 100 pounds
BY this dispensation of Providence the
milk buyer gets 49, pounds of cheese for
nothing, which if made by cooperation
would have been saved to tho patrons,
about $40 per day to divide pro rata
These are a few of the things that make
dairyihg improbable, and which we'll
stuck to CO. operation would tend to remedy.
Il IT,, ONO. IN Netr YorE Tribune.